Saturday, March 17, 2012

Protest Calls for Islam-based Tunisia Constitution

BOSTON.COM: About 8,000 Islamists have demonstrated outside Tunisia’s constitutional assembly calling for a charter based on Islamic law.

The crowd, mostly bearded men and heavily veiled women, called on Friday for the assembly charged with writing the country’s new constitution to apply Islamic law to Tunisia, a country once known for its secular traditions. » | Friday, March 16, 2012